What happens when you bring together more than 100 investors from around the world in Belgrade?
You get an evening that connects capital, ideas, and people — the Rooftop, Sunset & Investing event.

Although this year’s edition, due to rain, was moved from the planned rooftop location to the indoor space of Silosi, the spirit of the event remained unchanged: serious conversations about investing in a relaxed atmosphere, with music, smiles, and new connections.

For the third year in a row, investors from America, Europe, and the region meet to exchange experiences, explore new opportunities, and build relationships that go beyond a single event. This year, the program opened up space for a discussion about the regional investment landscape, with a special focus on biotechnology, fintech, and other growing industries.

Rooftop, Sunset & Investing is not a classic conference. It’s a place where trust, openness, and genuine curiosity have the same value as capital. Because the strength of an ecosystem isn’t measured only in numbers, but in the quality of relationships and the people who build it.

We are already jointly shaping 2026 — with new formats and ideas that grow together with the community. At a time when healthy and connected ecosystems are more important than ever, Silosi and Rooftop, Sunset & Investing are starting a collaboration with the goal of connecting capital, culture, and community.

To close the tenth edition of the art+science festival Putanje tehnologija, at Dom kulture Silosi, we didn’t want an ending. We wanted a beginning. So we planted an oak together.

From October 7 to 26, 2025, through art, science, and research, we explored technology, memory, time, and intergenerational dialogue. We talked about the future—and then did something that lasts longer than any format.

In mythology, the oak is a tree of strength, long memory, and community—a tree that connects generations, a tree that remains. But the oak isn’t just a symbol. It is an important source of pollen for bees in spring, a home for birds, shelter for insects, shade for people, and a place for gatherings, conversations, and silence. Over time, it becomes a small ecosystem.

Instead of something that gets used up, discarded, or forgotten—we planted something that grows. Something that one day will be shade for children who haven’t even been born yet.

This isn’t just a symbolic gesture. This is an extension of the exhibition. A living installation that remembers.

Because if we’re already talking about technologies and the future, it’s only right to leave something real.

Not just for us. But for those who are coming.

As part of European Week of Sport, on September 25, Urban Sport Fest was held at Silosi Beograd—an event that brought together sport, art, and contemporary urban culture in one place. The festival attracted a large number of young people, athletes, and fans of an active lifestyle, giving them the opportunity to try out different urban disciplines, learn new skills, and spend a day filled with good energy and socializing.

Throughout the day, visitors had the chance to enjoy a dynamic program that included freestyle basketball, parkour, sport climbing, BMX tricks, breakdancing, graffiti art, dance challenges, esports, slackline, disc golf, and numerous interactive workshops. The festival was conceived as a space where sport meets creative expression, where young people could actively take part, test their skills, and connect with clubs and communities developing urban sports across Serbia.

The event was ceremonially opened by taekwondo athlete #TeamSerbia Stefan Takov, who delivered a strong message to young people about the importance of movement, discipline, and belief in their own abilities. He emphasized that it is important to stay persistent, believe in yourself, and never give up—both in sport and in everyday life.

Special attention was drawn by the Urban Sport Passport, a guide to urban sports and the most active clubs in the country. Visitors had the opportunity to complete different challenges, collect stamps, and take part in a raffle with valuable prizes, which further encouraged active participation and a competitive spirit.

Local DJs Spale and Sara took care of the all-day atmosphere, while the evening was rounded out by performances from Ive Zhive and the band Who See, bringing the festival to a close in the spirit of music, sport, and togetherness.

European Week of Sport continues over the coming days across Serbia through numerous sports and educational activities, and all information about upcoming events is available on the website www.evropskanedeljasporta.rs.

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In late August, the fourth edition of Los Silos Burger Fest—one of Belgrade’s most visited gastro festivals—was held at the Beogradski Silosi and Luka Beograd venue. The festival ran from August 29 to September 7, 2025, and this year it was organized across the largest area to date, after the previous edition drew more than 50,000 visitors.

Los Silos Burger Fest brought together numerous local exhibitors, who presented their signature burger specialties prepared exclusively for the festival. Participants in this year’s edition included Baš Smash, Bistro Funk, BH, Fat Boys, Smash, Rozbrat, Thyme, New Balkan Cuisine, Burgerizza, Flat Burger, In Smoke We Trust, Haslers and Zaokret, while the festival’s offer also included craft beers, wines, cocktails, and desserts.

In addition to the gastronomic segment, the festival also delivered a diverse accompanying program that ran throughout the day. Over the festival’s ten days, the Silosi space was filled with DJs and bands, daytime and evening parties, as well as special program formats. Among them, the Saturday morning party Jurka stood out, produced in collaboration with Los Silos Burger Fest and held at the Luka Beograd venue.

A special place in the program was also taken by Los Silos Cup, an amateur burger-making competition that brought together enthusiasts and lovers of this culinary form.

The festival was conceived as an event open to all generations, so throughout its run numerous activities for children were also organized, including educational and creative workshops, as well as content intended for family visits. The Riverside lounge zone, set along the Danube, further enhanced the festival’s relaxed atmosphere and turned this part of the city into a temporary urban living room.

Los Silos Burger Fest once again confirmed the role of Silosi Beograd as an authentic urban platform where contemporary city culture, top-tier gastronomy, and music come together.

The “Knowledge Hive” project is being implemented in partnership with Novak Djokovic Foundation, with the aim of bringing the world of bees, nature, and biodiversity closer to preschool children through carefully designed experiential learning in nature.

The program takes place within BeeCentar, located as part of Silosi, and the activities are carried out in the Honey Garden of Silosi Belgrade – a unique space where education, nature, and the urban community meet. Through organized visits, little ones have the opportunity to learn, in an interactive and age-appropriate way, about the importance of bees for the environment, discover what honey plants are, and understand how a hive functions as a small but perfectly organized ecosystem.

The program is designed to encourage learning through play, observation, and direct experience. Through guided workshops, conversations with beekeepers, and creative activities, children develop awareness of the importance of preserving nature, cooperation, and responsibility—values that bees demonstrate every day through their way of life. Spending time in the Honey Garden of Silosi Belgrade gives them the chance to be outdoors in the fresh air, explore, ask questions, and build an authentic connection with nature.

Thanks to our initiative and the support of our partners, all organization costs are fully covered, so parents have no financial obligations. In this way, we provide equal access to education and the experience of spending time in nature for all children.

At the end of the visit, the little ones return to their kindergartens full of impressions, new knowledge, and symbolic gifts that remind them of this special day.

“Knowledge Hive” is not just a trip—it’s the first step toward generations who understand, respect, and protect nature. 

During the first half of the season, we hosted a series of different events, and one of them held a special place — the promotion of the book „Priča o svima nama“ by Ivana Tomić Blečić.

This book is not just a story about climbing Africa’s highest peak. It speaks of people, encounters, self-examination, and inner journeys — of everything that shapes us throughout life. And that is exactly what the promotion itself was like: an experience that took the audience on a journey through words, rhythm, movement, and images, straight into the heart of Africa.

The evening was filled with the powerful energy of the contemporary and the traditional, music and dance, spirituality and togetherness. The event gained special value from the fact that all proceeds from the sale of books and artworks were dedicated to helping primary school pupils in an African village, giving this story a humanitarian continuation as well.

That evening, Medonosni vrt became a space where cultures, ideas, and emotions met — a place where art isn’t merely observed, but experienced. That is exactly the kind of program we want to nurture at Silosi Beograd: events that inspire, connect, and leave a mark.

The book „Priča o svima nama“ is now available in Serbian and English, and continues to live on as an invitation to a personal journey, a reminder, and an inspiration — just as its promotion at Silosi was.

Photo by: Stefan Simonović

Cirkobalkana is a regional traveling contemporary circus festival which, over its decade of existence, has become one of the key meeting points for contemporary circus practices in the region.

Under the slogan “LIVE CIRCUS”, the festival’s artistic team continuously highlights the importance of circus as a relevant art form—as a space for free expression, social critique, and reflection on contemporary society. In times of pressure, control, and various restrictions, circus remains an art that has something to say, to offer, and to spark thought.

The festival is dedicated to the struggle for art that inspires, broadens horizons, and creates a space of freedom.

The Cirkobalkana concept is designed to bring together and support local, regional, and European contemporary circus practices in one place, encourage collaboration and the exchange of knowledge, and present contemporary circus through its authentic and innovative performance language, stemming from its transdisciplinarity. The festival program includes works by artists from France, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia.

The festival is realized through a rich and diverse program that includes performances, workshops, concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, and other accompanying activities, intended for audiences of all ages. Special attention is given to creating a unique festival space by setting up circus tents, and in some editions additional circus structures such as a flying trapeze, which enables participation by both professionals and amateurs.

Cirkobalkana is carried out in cooperation with international partners and artists, including Magdaclan Circo (Italy), the circus school Turbul (France), as well as within international projects such as Solo But Not Alone, implemented in cooperation with the organization Quattrox4.

The festival is realized in partnership with the BITEF festival and the French Institute in Belgrade, with logistical support from Silosi Beograd, the GAIA movement, and Luka Beograd.

Organizers:
Cirkusfera (Belgrade) and Cirkorama (Zagreb)

See more: https://cirkobalkana.org/sr/cirkobalkana-10/

As part of the exhibition “The Magic of the Pirot Kilim,” which was on display in the Belgrade Silosi during June and July, an accompanying educational and creative program was also realized in the form of tufting workshops, created in collaboration with the Belgrade brand Twenty Five Market. The workshops were dedicated to a contemporary approach to traditional wool processing, with a special focus on Pirot motifs and local heritage.

Workshop participants had the opportunity to get acquainted with the tufting technique—a contemporary process of making carpets using specialized tools—and through hands-on work create small rugs from 100% natural wool. Inspiration for the design came from the rich ornamentation of the Pirot kilim, establishing a direct dialogue between traditional craft and contemporary design.

The brand Twenty Five Market, led by its founder Mina Kaljević, is known for creating unique, handmade rugs that connect artistic expression, craft knowledge, and a sense of home. Their work is based on using high-quality local wool and the idea that each rug carries a personal signature and story, whether intended for a private or public space.

During the workshops at Silosi, tufting was presented not only as a design technique, but also as a process that encourages creativity, focus, and a direct relationship with the material. With expert guidance, participants went through all stages of the work—from the idea and sketching the motif, through working on the frame, to the final finishing of the rug.

The workshops naturally built on the theme of the exhibition itself, further highlighting the potential of wool as a material that connects past and present, handwork and contemporary production. As part of the accompanying program of the exhibition “The Magic of the Pirot Kilim,” these workshops offered visitors an experience of active participation and a personal encounter with living heritage, interpreted through a contemporary language of design.